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Maison du Prix Wines

If you are (a) over 25 (b) gainfully employed (c) seeking a significant other (d) seeking the approval of your significant other's parents or (e) invited to anyone's house for dinner,  you need a good wine source.  And yes, I am telling you that the 17-year-old stocking...

Spiced Grilled Salmon

Through a series of ridiculous events Nick and I moved our family to New York for a single year, the 2012/2013 school year.   Once upon a time I lived there for 6 years and it still feels more like home than anywhere else in...

Creamy Roasted Cauliflower Soup

Entertaining is my drug of choice.  Here's what it does:  It makes me clean my house, put out new flowers and communicate effectively with friends.  It also makes me feel really down if I don't do it enough.   The morning-after effect of my drug...

Gorgeous (affordable) wine glasses.

I worked for a restaurant company based out of NYC for six years.  It was a fantastic time to be at the company and a fantastic time to be in NYC. One of the many benefits we had was that we could occasionally buy food,...

Buttermilk Biscuit Strawberry Shortcake

I went to college in a small town called Hammond, Louisiana.   The town and the school both are nondescript except that the school doubled in size while I was there, from 7,000 students to 14,000 students, and the town size was about 14,000 at...

Do Ahead Frittata

There are varying schools of thought on having a planned delivery of a baby.  The detractors say it takes the magic out of having a baby because it turns nature into something clinical.  Having had three deliveries...

Candy Free Easter Basket

As the child of hippie parents who divorced when I was two, I don't have a complete collection of bucolic holiday memories stored in my memory bank.  I have one here and one there -- for instance the Christmas that I was desperate for a...

The Quintessential Cajun Bloody Mary

I was so caught up with new baby fever that I barely registered Martine's recent move to New Orleans!   She road-tripped with her two dogs and her amazing friend Monica all the way from San Francisco.  She made night stops in Tucson and Austin...

The Journey of the Krewe of St. Anne

I recently wrote a guest blog posting on ChefJohnBesh.com on Mardi Gras traditions.  My very favorite one is the extremely New Orleanian and rarely fully understood tradition of marching with the Krewe of St. Anne on Mardi Gras Day.  Despite having participated a half dozen...

Vanilla Buttercream Cake with Candied Kumquats

Oh, hi there.  Have you been looking for me?  Has Martine kept you entertained?  I have been slightly busy, um, having an unbelievably satisfying baby and all. I promised myself that I wouldn't bore you by posting about how I spend my days making goo-goo eyes...

Salter Scale

Before attending The International Culinary Center I never considered buying a kitchen scale.  In the unlikely event that I would stumble across a recipe calling for weight instead of volume measurements I would simply find a different recipe or I would use the weight measurement...